OS X Server 10.3 Cyrus Mailserver Trouble?

The Cyrus mail server on some Mac OS X server machine acted up yesterday. It turned out the Cyrus DB file was damaged, something that happens sometimes it seems. I searched the web for the error message and after a while came up with something. This morning I rebuilt the database and service is back up. Read on for the description...

The ugly thing was that since SMTP was still running, the server was accepting incoming mails, but returning them later. Not nice. Stopping the mail services all together is a better option in this situation.

Googling around found me some hints, and in the end the Apple Technote: Mac OS X Server 10.3: Reconstructing cyrus mailboxes. Apparently 10.4 Server has a nice and shiny button for this, but for 10.3 Server the procedure can be done in the shell (after stopping mail services):

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